The Siberian permafrost is vast and sparsely populated, and the weather is harsh, making it difficult to produce food. Although there are abundant resources and minerals underground, theoretically speaking, it is still not very suitable for habitation.

However, since the Ming Dynasty has conquered Siberia, it is inevitable that it will not give up, and it is certain that it will rule forever.

And to rule a piece of land, it is not just a matter of words, nor is it just a simple garrison, but also a number of people as the basis for rule, and continuous development.

The people in the Central Plains have a stable life, and there are many places where they can choose to immigrate, whether it is Australia, Southeast Asia, Korea, Wa Province, Ryukyu, or even the Mongolian steppe and Cossack steppe, the environment of these places is much better than the barren permafrost of Siberia.

Therefore, the number of people in the Central Plains who are willing to emigrate to Siberia is very small and very small, and it is almost negligible.

In this way, if the Ming Dynasty wants to have some common people base in Siberia, and there are people who are constantly developing that land, they can only think of other methods. And the 300,000 Indonesian indigenous people who directly rebelled or were implicated were the best choice.

300,000 people are not much, and the environment is very different from the tropical migration to the frozen soil that is almost uncultivateable, and I don't know how much I have to reduce in the process, maybe in 50 years, 100 years, these 300,000 people will not be able to evolve into 500,000 people, but that is better than nothing.

"The emperor is wise!" Li Yan had no objection.

With the addition of 300,000 exiles, coupled with the assimilation of the Siberian natives, the Ming Dynasty could initially develop Siberia.

On the same day, Zhu Ci's holy decree was issued.

The people of the Central Plains know the barrenness and cold of Siberia, and they have no objection to the punishment of the imperial court to exile the Indonesian thief to Siberia and never return, let alone sympathize with the family of the thief, they only have two words, they deserve it!

And they have no objection to the fact that the imperial court doubled the tax on ordinary Indonesian people who did not participate in the rebellion for five years, and they also have only two words, they deserve it!

The news reached the Indonesian archipelago.

The three million Indonesian natives immediately breathed a sigh of relief, although the imperial court did punish them, but as long as they did not directly cancel their status as Ming people, they could still bear it if they only doubled the tax for five years.

The tax rate of the Ming Dynasty was originally very low, even if the tax was doubled, it was far lower than the tax rate at the beginning when the Dutch enslaved them.

It's better than losing the identity of the people of the Ming Dynasty, they will lose more good.

As for the 300,000 rebel soldiers and their families, they had no choice, and after the imperial decree was issued, they were escorted to Siberia by batch after batch through the North-South Railway connecting Siberia and the port of Singapore, and were resettled in batches!

After dealing with the Indonesian archipelago matter, the battle of Malacca in the Ming Dynasty was truly over.

The Ming Dynasty is temporarily determined both inside and outside, not only without the threat of the enemy country, but also without the threat of war, and has begun a process of rapid development.

First and foremost among them is naval reform.

In the twelfth year of Daming Zhongxing, December 1, Jiangnan Shipyard.

This is the largest shipyard in the Ming Dynasty, with more than 10,000 craftsmen and workers, undertaking the construction of more than half of the Ming warships, at least 200 Shenwei-class warships launched in the Jiangnan Shipyard, as well as thousands of fishing boats, merchant ships, transport ships and so on.

Zhu Ci's luan drove to the Jiangnan Shipyard.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" Song Yingxing, director of the Science and Technology Institute, and a number of senior executives of Jiangnan Shipyard came to pay their respects.

Not long after the steam engine was built, Daming started the construction plan of the ironclad ship, which was jointly designed and guided by the top five craftsmen of the Academy of Science and Technology and the Jiangnan Shipyard.

As a craftsman who is familiar with hundreds of engineering disciplines, Song Yingxing has a wide range of knowledge and great ability, and he not only has to participate in the scientific and technological innovation and research and development of various science and technology institutes, but also participates in the design and guidance of shipyard warships.

"Let's all be flat!" Zhu Ci staggered off the Luan car.

Zhu Ciji not only came by himself, but also brought hundreds of civil and military officials, asking them to witness a miraculous moment together.

Under the leadership of Song Yingxing and the director of the shipyard, Zhu Ciji and hundreds of civil and military officials came to the seaside.

What catches the eye is a huge steel battleship in the dock, which is the first ironclad battleship designed and built by Jiangnan Shipyard with several years of painstaking efforts and a lot of manpower and material resources, with a displacement of about 2,300 tons, 14 guns, four 150 mm caliber main guns, six 120 mm secondary guns, and four 80 mm rapid-fire guns.

"Your Majesty, the ironclad ship's steam propeller power engine has been concealed, and it can be launched at any time!" The director of Jiangnan Shipyard reported to Zhu Ci.

"Good!" Zhu Ci smiled and said: "All of you Aiqing have worked hard, this is the first ironclad ship of the Ming Dynasty, if it succeeds, I will definitely be rewarded." Passing on my will, the ironclad ship was launched for sea trials. ”

The first ironclad ship of the Ming Dynasty is also the first ironclad ship in the world, which will completely subvert the traditional warship model, and will also subvert the mode of naval warfare and push the world's sea power to a new one.

"Emperor Xie!" There was excitement throughout the shipyard.

As a large number of shipyard craftsmen quickly got busy, they were ready to put the ironclad ships in the dock into the sea for sea trials.

At this moment, Zhu Ci was calm.

However, the hearts of the civil and military officials were full of apprehension and disbelief, they had actually known about the ironclad ship plan for a long time, and they had also raised objections, but they were all forcibly suppressed by Zhu Ci.

In their minds, how could iron float on the water, especially such a large piece of iron.

They couldn't help but worry that if they sank directly after being put into the water, the loss of a lot of money and materials spent on building a warship would be secondary, where would the emperor's face go, and where would the faces of their civil and military officials go.

Not to mention the civil and military officials, even Li Yan, who has always been firm in his belief in Zhu Ciji, is also a little apprehensive in his heart, after all, this is completely beyond his cognition.

Even, up and down the shipyard, Song Yingxing and other R&D personnel of the Academy of Science and Technology were also worried, although in the research and development and design, they had used a thick iron sheet to make an experiment first, and it did not sink, so shocked that they opened their mouths one by one, incredible, and it also proved that iron is not impossible to float in the water, but the ironclad ship is too huge, and it uses thousands of tons of steel, such a large piece of steel, they can't predict whether it can really float on the water like the experimental small iron boat.

Just when the civil and military officials and the shipyard were extremely nervous, the ironclad ship was launched.

"Wow"